Not posting this quite so much for the song itself, even if it's the most enjoyable Animal Collective-related thing I've ever heard, but because this is the the trippiest music video I've ever seen. And maybe one of the 2 or 3 best animated ones I've ever watched.

Imagine the narrator of this song as having a desperate, nostalgia-fueled midlife crisis and take his words as a sincere longing for a past he barely remembers with any accuracy or honesty and is probably just whitewashing into an idealized fantasy that he's just torturing himself with.

This is way more poignant and painful than any meaning found in it if as sung by a 23 year old.